They summoned a whistleblower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller.

Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, was to be the star witness for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the man leading the probe of the Obama administrations handling of the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi.

But despite Issas incautious promise that the hearings revelations would be damaging to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hicks didnt lay a glove on the former secretary of state Wednesday. Rather, he held lawmakers from both parties rapt as he recounted the events of that terrifying night  revealing a made-for-Hollywood plot with a slow, theatrical delivery and genuine emotion.

He spoke of watching TV at his residence in Tripoli when a security officer ran into my villa yelling, Greg! Greg! The consulates under attack. 

The WaPo has the b*lls to use the word yarn after all the bull Obama they’ve subjected us to for all these years?

Silly me, I would have thought that the government whistleblower would possess more standards five years after he passed away than any WaPo so-called “journalist” has now...or for that matter...ever did.

Nice try, WaPo. But remember, virtually anyone out there with an IQ over room temp who has not been educated in a public school can see right through your shoddy writing and non-existent logic.

Yeah I think they buried the lede for sure here, which was that the scandal was less that there was an attack on the embassy, but that the whole administration then proceeded to lie about what happened for months to come.

It was the offensive coverup blaming it on a “conservative” youtube video that was the crime, and that DID come out in this testimony.

If they had said there should have been more security in Benghazi but we acrewed up and there wasn’t and now people are dead, we would not still be talking about it.

First is the TWO orders to stand down sent to Special Ops personel that were boarding a plane from Tripoli to Bengazi.

Second, the email sent from the Second in command at State to others including the Most Senior Administration Personel (Hicks) in libya at the time at the State Department that Trey Gowdy read from, that stated that this Person TOLD the Libyan President the day after the attack it was a terrorist attack with ties to Ansar Alshari. Followed by weeks of intentional Lieing to the public and congress as to the cause of the attack.

Third, the Babysitter that was sent from the SOS to shadow Rep. Chaffitz and Ambassador Hicks ordered to NOT meet with him without the SOS lawyer present. When a meeting took place that the SOS Lawyer didn’t have clearence for, the phone Call from Hitlary’s Chief if Staff Cheryl Mills.

Dana care to comment? Nah I thought not. You are too busy sucking the Administrations ass. It’s Pathetic you call yourself a “Reporter”.

Misdirection and bait and switch are favorite tactics of the criminal enterprise democrips. The political issue is the regime used the excuse of a video on youtube to exhonerate their purposed abandonment of the mission in Benghazi. So, the double talk is to address 'no smoking gun regarding the response to the attack while it was going on' when the issue is the huge lie Rice spittled on complicit media, then if the false accusation of the youtube being the reason for the attack is raised, the media are directed to dabble in the particulars of the attack rather than address the regime lying to the world to cover their fecklessness under fire.

The media have eagerly transitioned from the fourth estate to the fifth column enemy of We The People. Sadly, the dumbed down public haven't a clue whom the enemy is.

I watched cnn yesterday just to see what they were reporting on. wall to wall about the 3 women kidnapped for 10 years, not even anything scrolling at the bottom of the screen. I agree it's a big story but not one mention about Benghazi, and I monitored it for a while. Went to FOX, they managed to cover both stories simultaneously with no problem. That tells me cnn was deliberately ignoring Benghazi.

Dana Milbank is a male (at least in the sense of having a Y chromosome).

In 2001, in the early months of the GWB administration, his blatant hostility to President Bush was so extreme that even the rest of the mainstream media found it over-the-top. Later he became a regular guest on MSNBC...and may still be since I avoid watching it (but occasionally see who is on as I am clicking past that channel with the remote).

Good. That's what we want. I remember Watergate like it was yesterday.

The lame stream media was the arch enemy of Nixon. It was the whole reason for Watergate. The constant attacks made it hard to get a conviction before he resigned. He was always in the limelight, so he knew what was comin’.

Now the House has a chance to go under the radar and blindside the arrogant SOB. It'll be too late for this primadonna to resign before he's impeached AND convicted. And the LSM will go down in flames with him.

This is the PERFECT opportunity to demolish the leftist communists boobs once and for all.

Sanctimonious, protected little pissant “journalists” who deign to ridicule the accounts of someone whose organization had been attacked by terrorists, and his boss killed. Milbank would be hiding under the bed pissing his pink panties if he were caught up in something like that.

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posted on 05/09/2013 11:39:19 AM PDT
by ScottinVA
( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)

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